Case Study: Bureau Veritas achieves unified global HR and better people decisions with SAP SuccessFactors

Bureau Veritas Making HR a Catalyst for Business Growth with SAP SuccessFactors Solutions

Bureau Veritas, a Paris‑headquartered testing, inspection, and certification group with 68,000 employees across 1,400 locations, faced fragmented HR processes and poor data quality after years of acquisitions. The disparate local systems made global reporting, compensation oversight, and management of roughly 10,000 annual hires slow and error-prone. To standardize HR and support growth, Bureau Veritas turned to SAP SuccessFactors, deploying cloud HR solutions such as Employee Central, Recruiting, Performance & Goals, Onboarding, and Compensation.

SAP SuccessFactors implemented a single global HR core (Employee Central) across 80 countries, linked to local payroll and operational apps, and rolled out Recruiting (initially in five countries), Onboarding (US), Performance & Goals to 3,000 managers, and Compensation tools. The program captured 80% of workforce data in one system, improved reporting and regulatory compliance, streamlined annual salary reviews, and freed HR from administrative tasks so it could focus on talent and business priorities — measurable gains attributed directly to SAP SuccessFactors’ solutions.

Bureau Veritas

Fernanda Ribeiro

Group HR Information System Management Director